Mass_Driver comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Will_Newsome 04 June 2010 04:08PM

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 05 June 2010 07:18:16PM 14 points [-]

Maybe, but be very careful not to jump from

a pretty damning fact about the way this whole area of intellectual work is conducted in practice.

to

therefore there is no sense in individual people whose rationality is above-average attempting, in good faith and by way of experiment, to apply some subset of this intellectual work to their actual lives,

which I think is a conclusion that some people might inadvertently draw from your comment.